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Green glazed earthenware Passover seder plate made by Jewish DPs in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp.

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    Green glazed earthenware Passover seder plate made by Jewish DPs in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp.
    Green glazed earthenware Passover seder plate made by Jewish DPs in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp. Engraved on the rim of the plate is a scene of slave laborers being forced to work by a master in the shadow of a pyramid and a group of buildings representing historic Jerusalem. The Hebrew text on one side of the decorative motif reads: "From Slavery to Freedom," and on the other: "This Year in Jerusalem". Inside another decorative motif are the Hebrew and English words "JOINT" and "Religious Office". Stamped on the back is the Hebrew term "Sheerit ha-Pletah" [Surviving Remnant] and the English, "Employment Board". This seder plate was given to U.S. Army chaplain Rabbi Nathan Abramowitz by Jewish DPs at the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp.

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    Green glazed earthenware Passover seder plate made by Jewish DPs in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp.

    Engraved on the rim of the plate is a scene of slave laborers being forced to work by a master in the shadow of a pyramid and a group of buildings representing historic Jerusalem. The Hebrew text on one side of the decorative motif reads: "From Slavery to Freedom," and on the other: "This Year in Jerusalem". Inside another decorative motif are the Hebrew and English words "JOINT" and "Religious Office". Stamped on the back is the Hebrew term "Sheerit ha-Pletah" [Surviving Remnant] and the English, "Employment Board".

    This seder plate was given to U.S. Army chaplain Rabbi Nathan Abramowitz by Jewish DPs at the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp.
    Date
    1948
    Locale
    Foehrenwald, [Bavaria; Wolfratshausen] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Nathan Abramowitz

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Nathan Abramowitz
    Source Record ID: Collections: 1992.182.1

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    Artifact Geography
    Washington, DC United States
    Artifact Photographer
    Arnold Kramer
    Record last modified:
    2001-11-06 00:00:00
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